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Why don't section breaks work correctly?
Hi,
I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a 10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT = SECTION BREAK = NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page was created. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks! |
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Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only
reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a 10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT = SECTION BREAK = NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page was created. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks! |
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I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or
footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a 10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT = SECTION BREAK = NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page was created. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks! |
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Do the different header and footer duplicate any existing text in your
document? What's in each one? On 5/25/05 9:06 AM, "bun4n" wrote: I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. |
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Daiya,
HEADER - The first page has a different header from the remaining 9 pages. Pages 2 - 10 will show the name of the form controller FOOTER - First page has a different footer from the remaining 9 pages. Pages 2 - 6 indidate the Rev#, Page, and Form page# (are two different things) Page 7 - 10 indicate the Rev @, Page, and type of page. So, as you see, it's a little tricky. Grateful for your help! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Do the different header and footer duplicate any existing text in your document? What's in each one? On 5/25/05 9:06 AM, "bun4n" wrote: I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. |
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The way that usually works is reference to something in the particular page
using the StyleRef field. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message news  I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a 10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT = SECTION BREAK = NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page was created. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks! |
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It sounds like you could get by with only one section. In addition to
StyleRef, look into setting the page formatting for different first page for headers/footers and the use of conditional fields. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm for ideas on this. Although it refers to page numbers, you can put an entire header/footer text as either the truetext or falsetext in a conditional (IF) field. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message ... Daiya, HEADER - The first page has a different header from the remaining 9 pages. Pages 2 - 10 will show the name of the form controller FOOTER - First page has a different footer from the remaining 9 pages. Pages 2 - 6 indidate the Rev#, Page, and Form page# (are two different things) Page 7 - 10 indicate the Rev @, Page, and type of page. So, as you see, it's a little tricky. Grateful for your help! "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Do the different header and footer duplicate any existing text in your document? What's in each one? On 5/25/05 9:06 AM, "bun4n" wrote: I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. |
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OK, I figured it out, with you guys help. I did do through they page layout
using Normal View. This way I could see exactly where my sections started and ended, and I got rid of page breaks at the same time. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: The way that usually works is reference to something in the particular page using the StyleRef field. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message news I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section breaks, then I'd love to hear about it. I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each page? You may want to look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "bun4n" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a 10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT = SECTION BREAK = NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page was created. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks! |
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